ALL ABOUT YOU QUESTIONS - Please Answer these before we leave for the trip.
1. Who on this trip is your best friend and why? What special qualities do you bring to this friendship?
2. In what ways could you see a SAS community service project integrated into this trip next year?
3. Do you consider yourself a leader? Why or why not? Explain How do you think people perceive you? If you could tell people one thing about yourself, about your inner self, what would it be? Explain.
4. Are you enthusiastic about trying new things on this trip? If not, why not? Explain.
5. Do you consider yourself a leader? List your qualities as a leader or explain why you are not? Explain
6. What do you think your life passion might be? Try to be as specific as possible even though you probably don’t know for sure.
Part II – JOURNAL QUESTIONS:
While you are on China Alive, you will keep a Daily Journal. Every day, you will have some time to reflect upon some of the experiences you have had by answering two questions from each of the following EAGLEs, answer these questions in your journal. When answering the questions you need to make sure you give examples and be detailed. You will be assigned a teacher that will check off your writing each day. Without the check you will not Pass.
Themes:
Empowered
Describe a situation during the trip from which you learnt something important from a non SAS person.
Describe a situation where you solved a communication, travel or friendship problem by trying something you normally would not have done.
Keep track of healthy choices you made during this trip – what did you eat? how did you manage your need for sleep? When and how did you choose to “work” or “play”? How did you manage quiet time alone and noisy times with friends?
If you could be trip leader, what choices would you make for the trip to keep your students healthy and happy? Why? Justify your answer with examples from your trip experience.
What about this trip has made you take responsibility for yourself?
Have you had to take a position of leadership during this trip? How were you as a leader? What was difficult? What skills make a good leader?
Adaptable
Describe a situation during the trip that didn’t go exactly to plan. How did you (and the group) adapt? Did you try something different? How did you feel about the results?
Describe a situation on the trip where you had to work with another person or people to solve a problem. Discuss whether you feel it was easier to solve alone or in a group?
Describe a situation that you were in that was challenging on a personal level (physically or emotionally). How did you get through it?
What happened on this trip that made you have to change your plans? Did something happen that made you change your mind about something?
What was one problem you had to solve on the trip? How did you solve it? What skills are necessary to be a good problem-solver.
Globally Minded
Based on your observations, what might be some of the advantages and disadvantages of living in a small minority community?
Describe a situation where local people did something in a different or unexpected way. How did it make you feel? What at the advantages and disadvantages to doing it this way?
Based on your observations what evidence of BIG WORLD ISSUES ( ex. Pollution, energy crisis) did you see in local life?
What are some of the unique aspects of the communities (people, land, customs, food, etc) you experienced that you wish you could “import” back to Shanghai? Why?
Imagine that you grew up in the local community and you were probably going to raise your children there. What do you like about your community? What would you want to change? What would you not want to change? Why?
Recommend this destination to someone else. Why would they want to visit here? What do you feel is of value and interest to everyone or to a particular person? Who should come here in your opinion? Why?
What is one thing you want to do and want to try to do to keep this China Alive experience alive after the trip?
Did you learn something about your classmates that was new and exciting? What was it?
Literate
Record your observations, experiences and responses in your journal throughout the journey.
Take photographs, record sounds and conversations (with people’s permission) sketch, create artwork, take notes of words, impression, images for possible poems, and collect artifacts that may help someone to understand your response.
Try some know before you go activities: what can you find in the library or on the web to give you background knowledge about the trip destination or make you more curious about where we are going? What do you want to know more about? Make a short list.
Collaborate in a shared presentation, which will be published online when we return.
How does keeping a journal deepen the experience of the trip for you?
Identify the most important of the trip for yourself and explain why it meant so much to you
Ethical
What have you done to ensure that the people that you have encountered in this community remember you in a positive light? Give specific examples.
What have you done on the trip that demonstrates your honesty, generosity and reliability towards trip members, chaperones and community members? Did you catch others in the act of being thoughtful of others? Describe how this is personally important to you.
What is life like for the children in this Middle School?
What do you think about the policy that all these children must leave the village and attend high school in the city?
Why must the children of this village learn Mandarin?
Skilled
What have you found out about local minority people that you think would be of interest to people not on this trip?
What skills have you learnt on this trip that you could share with others?
What skills have you learnt on this trip that you can or want to personally use again. How and why?
What did you find out on this trip that has changed your view of China or the world in some way?
Imagine that you are travelling to a lost corner of Siberia for example. How would this China Alive experience help you with your Siberian alive journey?
Imagine that you are going to a new school next year. How would this China Alive experience help you adjust?
What was the most difficult part of this trip for you? How could plan for your next trip so that you would be able to overcome these difficulties?
Part III – PHOTOGRAPHS
You will need to take a minimum of 30 photographs, more would be better. These photographs should be taken on your own camera. Please let the leader of the group know if you do not have a camera and we will help you to find someone to borrow one from. The pictures you take should relate to the questions you answered above. You will use these photographs to build your digital project on your laptop when we get back from the trip. We will check your camera daily or at the end of the trip. If you do not have photographs from each event and that relate to the questions you will not pass.
RUBRIC
PASS
FAIL
You have two questions from each of the EAGLES. Each answer has detail and examples. You put effort into your writing You did have your leader check off on your journal entries.
You did take at least 30 photographs that could be used with your writing to build your digital project.
Digital project contains at least 20 - 40 photographs, recorded journal entries and is at least 3 - 5 minutes in length. Upload on the Wiki by Friday, October 16. Presented during Flex class.
You did not have all 12 questions written in your journal.
You did not have your leader check off on your journal entries.
You did not take at least 30 photographs that could be used with your writing to build your digital project.
Digital project does not contain at least 20 - 40 photographs, recorded journal entries and is not at least 3 - 5 minutes in length. It was not upload on the Wiki by Friday, October 16. Could not be presented during Flex class.
Part IV – DIGITAL PROJECT:
The digital project will be made at school during FLEX class when we return. Your teacher will guide you and train you if needed with iPhoto and Garageband to make your final project. This will be presented to the flex class, graded by your trip leaders, and will be a project you will want to keep forever!
China Alive Questions:
China Alive Media Project 2009
Part I - The Daily Journal
ALL ABOUT YOU QUESTIONS - Please Answer these before we leave for the trip.
1. Who on this trip is your best friend and why? What special qualities do you bring to this friendship?2. In what ways could you see a SAS community service project integrated into this trip next year?
3. Do you consider yourself a leader? Why or why not? Explain How do you think people perceive you? If you could tell people one thing about yourself, about your inner self, what would it be? Explain.
4. Are you enthusiastic about trying new things on this trip? If not, why not? Explain.
5. Do you consider yourself a leader? List your qualities as a leader or explain why you are not? Explain
6. What do you think your life passion might be? Try to be as specific as possible even though you probably don’t know for sure.
Part II – JOURNAL QUESTIONS:
While you are on China Alive, you will keep a Daily Journal. Every day, you will have some time to reflect upon some of the experiences you have had by answering two questions from each of the following EAGLEs, answer these questions in your journal. When answering the questions you need to make sure you give examples and be detailed. You will be assigned a teacher that will check off your writing each day. Without the check you will not Pass.
Themes:
Empowered
Describe a situation during the trip from which you learnt something important from a non SAS person.Describe a situation where you solved a communication, travel or friendship problem by trying something you normally would not have done.
Keep track of healthy choices you made during this trip – what did you eat? how did you manage your need for sleep? When and how did you choose to “work” or “play”? How did you manage quiet time alone and noisy times with friends?
If you could be trip leader, what choices would you make for the trip to keep your students healthy and happy? Why? Justify your answer with examples from your trip experience.
What about this trip has made you take responsibility for yourself?
Have you had to take a position of leadership during this trip? How were you as a leader? What was difficult? What skills make a good leader?
Adaptable
Describe a situation during the trip that didn’t go exactly to plan. How did you (and the group) adapt? Did you try something different? How did you feel about the results?Describe a situation on the trip where you had to work with another person or people to solve a problem. Discuss whether you feel it was easier to solve alone or in a group?
Describe a situation that you were in that was challenging on a personal level (physically or emotionally). How did you get through it?
What happened on this trip that made you have to change your plans? Did something happen that made you change your mind about something?
What was one problem you had to solve on the trip? How did you solve it? What skills are necessary to be a good problem-solver.
Globally Minded
Based on your observations, what might be some of the advantages and disadvantages of living in a small minority community?Describe a situation where local people did something in a different or unexpected way. How did it make you feel? What at the advantages and disadvantages to doing it this way?
Based on your observations what evidence of BIG WORLD ISSUES ( ex. Pollution, energy crisis) did you see in local life?
What are some of the unique aspects of the communities (people, land, customs, food, etc) you experienced that you wish you could “import” back to Shanghai? Why?
Imagine that you grew up in the local community and you were probably going to raise your children there. What do you like about your community? What would you want to change? What would you not want to change? Why?
Recommend this destination to someone else. Why would they want to visit here? What do you feel is of value and interest to everyone or to a particular person? Who should come here in your opinion? Why?
What is one thing you want to do and want to try to do to keep this China Alive experience alive after the trip?
Did you learn something about your classmates that was new and exciting? What was it?
Literate
Record your observations, experiences and responses in your journal throughout the journey.Take photographs, record sounds and conversations (with people’s permission) sketch, create artwork, take notes of words, impression, images for possible poems, and collect artifacts that may help someone to understand your response.
Try some know before you go activities: what can you find in the library or on the web to give you background knowledge about the trip destination or make you more curious about where we are going? What do you want to know more about? Make a short list.
Collaborate in a shared presentation, which will be published online when we return.
How does keeping a journal deepen the experience of the trip for you?
Identify the most important of the trip for yourself and explain why it meant so much to you
Ethical
What have you done to ensure that the people that you have encountered in this community remember you in a positive light? Give specific examples.What have you done on the trip that demonstrates your honesty, generosity and reliability towards trip members, chaperones and community members? Did you catch others in the act of being thoughtful of others? Describe how this is personally important to you.
What is life like for the children in this Middle School?
What do you think about the policy that all these children must leave the village and attend high school in the city?
Why must the children of this village learn Mandarin?
Skilled
What have you found out about local minority people that you think would be of interest to people not on this trip?What skills have you learnt on this trip that you could share with others?
What skills have you learnt on this trip that you can or want to personally use again. How and why?
What did you find out on this trip that has changed your view of China or the world in some way?
Imagine that you are travelling to a lost corner of Siberia for example. How would this China Alive experience help you with your Siberian alive journey?
Imagine that you are going to a new school next year. How would this China Alive experience help you adjust?
What was the most difficult part of this trip for you? How could plan for your next trip so that you would be able to overcome these difficulties?
Part III – PHOTOGRAPHS
You will need to take a minimum of 30 photographs, more would be better. These photographs should be taken on your own camera. Please let the leader of the group know if you do not have a camera and we will help you to find someone to borrow one from. The pictures you take should relate to the questions you answered above. You will use these photographs to build your digital project on your laptop when we get back from the trip. We will check your camera daily or at the end of the trip. If you do not have photographs from each event and that relate to the questions you will not pass.RUBRIC
PASS
FAIL
You have two questions from each of the EAGLES. Each answer has detail and examples. You put effort into your writing You did have your leader check off on your journal entries.
You did take at least 30 photographs that could be used with your writing to build your digital project.
Digital project contains at least 20 - 40 photographs, recorded journal entries and is at least 3 - 5 minutes in length. Upload on the Wiki by Friday, October 16. Presented during Flex class.
You did not have all 12 questions written in your journal.
You did not have your leader check off on your journal entries.
You did not take at least 30 photographs that could be used with your writing to build your digital project.
Digital project does not contain at least 20 - 40 photographs, recorded journal entries and is not at least 3 - 5 minutes in length. It was not upload on the Wiki by Friday, October 16. Could not be presented during Flex class.
Part IV – DIGITAL PROJECT:
The digital project will be made at school during FLEX class when we return. Your teacher will guide you and train you if needed with iPhoto and Garageband to make your final project. This will be presented to the flex class, graded by your trip leaders, and will be a project you will want to keep forever!